A new algorithm quickly sifts through hours of field recordings to learn how climate change influences bird migration. The A.I. could help track other wildlife as well.
Thirty years ago, James Hansen, a scientist at Columbia’s NASA GISS, issued a warning about the dangers of climate change. The predictions he and other scientists made at the time have proved spectacularly accurate.
A study by Columbia University climate researchers projected that if global temperatures continue their upward march, applications for asylum to the European Union could increase 28 percent to nearly 450,000 per year by 2100.